Improvement in bedstead-fastenings



CHARLES M. GILBERT, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

IMPRQVEMENT IN BEDSTEAD-FASTENINGS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No.126,630, dated May 14, 1872.

1, CHARLES M. GILBERT, of the city and county of Philadelphia, in the State of Pennsylvania, haveinvented a certain Improvement in Bedstead-Fastenings, of which the following is a specification: l

The object of my invention is to make abcdsteadi'astening, which, with great simplicity and cheapness of construction, shall imite ease of adjustment and great durability; which shall also make a perfectly-close joint between the bed-post and rail, and which shall not be liable either to work loose with age or grow so tight as to make it difcult to take the bedstead apart.

The references are to the drawing.

Figure 1 is aperspective View of the rail and screw. Fig. 2 is a sectional view of the two screws in place. Fig. 3 is a sectional view of the post with the tubular screw.

The parts of my invention are, a bed-serew of the ordinary form and size; a tubular nut whose interiorface is afemale screw, and whose exterior a male screw. The tubular nut is rsi; screwed permanently into thevpost C, and the screw A is adjusted into the rail as'shown in D, which is prepared with a projection against which the screw-head bears.

A is the bed-screw; B, the tubular nut; C,

side view of the post with A screwed into position; D, side view of the rail, with B ready for adjustment. a t are pins 'which lit into the holes b b to prevent the rail turning from its upright position.

I claim- The tubular nut B with screw on the outside surface, in combination with the male or bedscrew A, with rail D, pins a a, and post C, as shown, for the purpose'speciied.

GHAS. M. GILBERT. Witnesses:

GYRUs LUKENs, THEoDoRE TOMKINS. 

